Fringe liberal ideas move to front-burner for Democrats

On issues like health care, immigration, jobs, and crime ... actions like DACA to protect huge swaths of undocumented immigrants from removal. In the Trump era, the administration has stepped up interior enforcement, begun to unravel DACA, pledged a ... read more

The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

We are not innocent bystanders to the growing ... health-care candidate over the top were those that lost the most people in recent years to deaths of despair—those due to alcohol, drugs, and suicide. To make all of America as great as Trump country ... read more

The Health-Care Campaign To Cover California's Remaining Uninsured

Care4All's advocates claim their solution -- which they are pushing not as a long-term alternative to single payer, but as an interim fix while the state works toward securing the needed federal waivers (unlikely in the Trump era, given the administration ... read more

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Transcript: Read the Full Text of the CNBC Republican Debate in Boulder

TRUMP ... those same procedures, we can apply it to Medicare. We can make a stronger program. But I agree with Jeb, you can’t just do this by growing the economy. You can’t grow your way out of demographics. But we can give people better health care. read more

How do Americans view poverty? Many blue-collar whites, key to Trump, criticize poor people as lazy and content to stay on welfare

Today, that remains the majority view, but the gap has ... in medical care, crime, family breakup, homelessness and more. And those costs are only part of the problem, according to Dr. Stewart Wolff, director of maternal and child health in Hartford. read more

Can Genetic Counselors Keep Up With 23andMe?

Because DTC patients are out of the referral pipeline, they may be on the hook financially for genetic-counseling visits to translate those ... health-care providers. The moves, says NSGC President Erica Ramos, would reflect their growing importance ... read more

Is Capitalism a Threat to Democracy?

Meanwhile, in the factories that remain, machines have grown more complex; the few workers they employ need to be better educated, further widening the gap between educated ... parental leave, national health care—rather than targeted. read more

Are too many minority students identified as disabled? Or are some who need services overlooked?

[Why DeVos’s plan to delay Obama-era rule on minority special ... These findings are also consistent with those reported by public health researchers. Unrecognized disabilities may partially explain racial achievement gaps in the United States as well ... read more

Trump wants taxpayers to spend more on health care for less coverage

The Trump administration ... Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tuesday– winding back Obama-era rules on skimpier health insurance. The administration is proposing to expand access to short-term health plans, which is intended to fill temporary gaps in coverage ... read more